Managing High Security Psychiatric Care

Managing High Security Psychiatric Care
Author: Charles Kaye
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781853025815

The management of the secure psychiatric services is under increasing scrutiny. The book illustrates the problems faced by the Special Hospitals, the techniques and action employed to effect major change in these large, enclosed institutions, difficulties and obstacles encountered which dominate and influenced management and clinical initiatives.

Seminars in Forensic Psychiatry

Seminars in Forensic Psychiatry
Author: Mary Davoren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2024-06-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1009573470

This updated edition of Seminars in Forensic Psychiatry is an invaluable guide for consultants and specialist trainees working in forensic psychiatry. Written by leading international contributors, topics include models of care, the management of in-patient violence, forensic psychotherapy, and psychological treatments. The evolution of policy and mental health law is discussed, demonstrating how it has shaped the provision of forensic psychiatry services. Legal aspects include considerations of mentalistic defences in criminal law, mental health law, as well as the law on negligence. The book also includes sections on specialist areas of need, including cultural and gender specific needs, terrorism, stalkers, and sex offenders. Woven into the chapters are practical approaches, and 'how to' guides. The volume ends with advice for each of the transitions in the career of a forensic psychiatrist. A truly practical guide, this is a must-read for psychiatrists and mental health professionals working within a forensic setting.

Secure Lives

Secure Lives
Author: Annie Bartlett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2016
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199640920

Though institutional care for people suffering from mental illness was phased out in the last century, mentally disordered offenders remain the exception to this rule. This book is a unique study of life in a high security hospital.

Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Secure Psychiatric Practice

Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Secure Psychiatric Practice
Author: Tony Lingiah
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2000-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1846426928

The contributors to this wide-ranging volume are experts from a range of psychiatric, criminal justice, legal and ethical backgrounds, and, uniquely, include patients who recount their own experience of forensic care settings. They examine and explore the central theoretic issues, such as culture, power, difference and participation, and relate them to examples of current practice, and to the improvement of future service provision. They identify techniques and approaches which will improve care and treatment. Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Secure Psychiatric Practice: Working with Difference. provides essential information and analysis which exposes society's view of minorities and the influence these views may have on care professionals working in psychiatric and criminal justice systems. It suggests practical steps for improvement to ensure a more equitable and culturally sensitive service provision.

Forensic Medicine

Forensic Medicine
Author: Jason Payne-James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 856
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781841100265

This multi-author, multinational book has provided a source of information about the forensic aspects of medicine and related fields for those currently involved in the clinical and pathologic aspects of health care, forensic assessment, investigation and diagnosis for victims, assailants and others involved in police or judicial systems.

Inside Ashworth

Inside Ashworth
Author: David Pilgrim
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2007
Genre: Psychiatric hospitals
ISBN: 1846191068

High security institutions for mentally disordered offenders are far more complex than regular mental health hospitals or prisons. Ashworth Hospital is no exception. This book raises questions as to why Ashworth resisted the call for change and survived moves towards de-institutionalisation, enquiries, and threats of closure.

Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management

Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management
Author: Liam Donaldson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030594033

Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.

Offenders, Deviants or Patients? Fourth Edition

Offenders, Deviants or Patients? Fourth Edition
Author: Herschel Prins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2010-06-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136993614

Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern, often heightened by media sensationalism, it addresses issues such as sex offending, homicide and other acts of serious bodily harm. This fourth edition comes after extensive new research by academics and professionals in the field and reflects recent changes in law, policy and practice, including: new sex offending legislation proposals to amend homicide legislation a new mental health act. Using new case examples, Herschel Prins examines the relationship between mental disorders and crime and looks at the ways in which it should be dealt with by the mental health care and criminal justice systems. Offenders, Deviants or Patients? is unique in its multidisciplinary approach and will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders or those who study crime and criminal behaviour.